by Jeff Roster | December 14, 2009 | Comments Off
I find this project to be the highlight of my year for a couple of reasons: 1. Working with Joe Skorupa and the RIS News team is a real pleasure. They are a terrific group of professionals and all really love this industry. 2. There’s not an event I go to where I don’t meet a respondent to [...]
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Category: Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Retail Retail IT Marketing Retail Spending Tags: retail, Retail events, social media, trends, Utilities IT spend
by Jeff Roster | November 30, 2009 | 1 Comment
In all the noise surrounding these to events the one that caused me to stop in my tracks and think for a minute was the below tweet from Nicole Maestri of Reuters: With all these Thanksgiving day and pre-Thanksgiving sales, I wonder how much longer Black Friday will actually mean anything? She asks a very provocative [...]
Category: Mobile Commerce Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Retail Spending Tags: Black Friday, Retail events, social media, Twitter
by Jeff Roster | December 22, 2008 | Comments Off
How many of us have dreamed of coming up with a solution for the pesky “Reply All” problem. Don’t know what that is? Lucky you. Here’s the scenario: Someone gets an email and because they think their answer is: A. either so witty or B. executing a CYA flanking maneuver they hit “Reply All” with their [...]
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Category: Retail Observations Tags: Add new tag, retail blogging, social media, Twitter
by Jeff Roster | December 4, 2008 | 3 Comments
Wednesday, the day before the US Thanksgiving holiday, was to be a quiet day of writing. I had no inquiries scheduled and definitely needed to get several reports completed as well as peer review several colleagues documents. Then the email arrived. It was a note from Timothy Kasbe, CIO of Reliance Retail, India describing his [...]
Category: Retail Industry Events Retail Observations Uncategorized Tags: retail blogging, social media, Twitter
